different way of thinking was mentally healthy meters as you're not as good as the us. in the stories that shaped the week here on r.t. international. workers around the globe are at risk of losing their jobs as the richest people on the planet see their bank accounts on the back of. immunity passports are being considered by europe's top tourism officials to get economies rolling again the world health organization says the plan is flawed. and we take a look at may day celebrations from across the world with a twist they were mostly limited to balconies and rooftops elsewhere. laws and social rules with dozens arrested.

here in moscow thanks for joining us in the weekly on r.t. international are. you with us. now let's begin with the latest figures the global pandemic is into another new month confirmed coronavirus cases of. 3 and a half 1000000 some hope more than 1100000 people have recovered the grim number you can see there fatalities now stands at more than 247000. only half of all workers across the globe are at risk of losing their jobs that's the stark warning from u.n. experts this crisis has been provoked by covert 19. explains why the market was already under threat. the jobs of 1600000 people are in jeopardy due to

coated 1000 lockdowns around the world ours have been cut incomes have decreased unemployment is rising but the problems did not start with the pandemic for millions of workers knowing come means no food no security and no future millions of businesses around the world are barely breathing they have no savings or access to credit the international labor organization points out that roughly half of the global workforce has a precarious existence with their livelihoods their access to food and healthcare and other necessities of life can be cut off at any moment due to problems in the market they often have poor access to health care services and have no income replacement in case of sickness or look down many of them have no possibility to work remotely from home staying home means losing their jobs and without wages they cannot eat 2 to $3300000000.00 people function within what's referred to as the informal economy they are self employed or they have short term contracts their

wages have decreased by roughly 60 percent during the 1st month of the pandemic for them the pandemic is not just a time to stay home and relax they have very real fears about how they are going to pay their bills as the international labor organization predicts massive losses in income are ahead for them in terms of the economic and social effects of this and demi it discriminates massively and above hold it discriminates against those who are at the bottom end of the world or for those who don't have protection those who don't have the sources those who don't have recourse to the types of things that we regard as the essential oils of a normal life not everyone is in the same boat amid the pandemic a new study shows that the $500.00 plus us billionaires have seen their combined well surge by roughly 2. $182000000000.00 with 8 of them gaining

a $1000000000.00 each since the beginning of the year meanwhile the weekly jobless claims keep rising and rising with roughly $30000000.00 of them in the last 6 weeks and gallup poll shows that one in 7 americans would avoid seeking medical treatments if they had some key symptoms of code 19 fever and dry cough because they're afraid of medical costs and it's worse when framed explicitly is believing to have been infected by the novel coronavirus 9 percent still report that they would avoid seeking cat adults under 30 nonwhites those with a high school education or less and those in households with incomes under 40000 dollars pay year how the group's most likely to indicate they would avoid seeking out cat the crisis in the economy is taking on the identity of its own i would argue and it's not just now being driven by what's happening with the virus slowdown it was really quite obvious in the us in advanced economies you could see

it in the commodity producing economies especially oil that was already slowing down the price was already declining you could see it the global trade which was barely growing global g.d.p. that was slowing so you know the process was already underway and it probably would have. unraveled in a much slower way and clearly though the virus effect as precipitated then the acceleration of the contraction it clearly does this criminal it is hitting the working class harder and certain segments of the working class and even even harder while there may not be many big parades with red flags this may day it seems that the pandemic has made it apparent many of the issues that working class organizations have been trying to highlight for so long it will mop and r.t. new york. the world health organization has warned against issuing immunity

passport saying there's no solid proof yet but recovering from the disease would prevent a 2nd infection plans being one of disgust particularly in europe with traces tourism minister claiming many agree on the need for a common travel protocol or what he calls a covert 1000 passport auntie's peter all of a takes a closer look. the brandenburg gate is one of germany's most visited tourist attractions but if you're dreaming of seeing it or anything else in the e.u. any time soon you may well need a special type of passport that says you're immune to the coronavirus the tourism sector has experienced an immense and unexpected decline in demand due to the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic our mission is to be as members of the european union and as part of the most successful tourist region in the world leader in the recovery of tourism these are munity passports are just one of a number of ideas being discussed by the tourism ministers as they try to find ways

to mitigate the impact of covert 90 on the holiday industry one particular idea is based on the whole proviso that if you've had 19 you can't be very effective some nations like greece which relies massively on holiday makers spending money there are very much on side with the plan but there is one quite significant hit show experts at the world health organization say immunity passports wouldn't be worth the paper they're printed on at this point there is not enough evidence about the effectiveness of antibody mediated immunity to guarantee the accuracy of an immunity passport or risk research difficult people who assume that they are immune to a 2nd infection made more public health advice the use of such that if it gets made there for increase the risks of continued transmission in some just so wanting that immunity for sports would just be impractical but they could. if we help to spread the virus further the sad reality for europe's tourism industry is that without

a working vaccine the future looks bright peter all of us. here in russia more than 134000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed over 10000 registered just in the last 24 hours some 16 and a half 1000 have recovered almost 1300 fall victim to the virus or t. has become the 1st company in the country to conduct staff screening tests to find out whether their blood plasma contains antibodies that could indicate if a person's been ill without symptoms as well as finding possible plasma donors for those critically ill correspondent jacksonville girl was one of those taking the test here's how it went. everybody who is left at the channel which is not a whole lot of people think lakefront is getting to us today to see if we have the

anti-bodies for the crown fires and if we do and if it turns out that we do later on we could possibly become donors because there's this whole wave of treating people with blood plasma from people who have already had the corona virus and that's been a lot of success for them so want to try that out i'm going to go get one taken which is not my favorite thing to do but we're going to cause it's all work they're great. way to turn that look like i'm up a little. bit. on the one of the of. the of the i think. the you. know the to.

the right and that's it so when the results come in and if it turns out that i have somehow the con artist and didn't know it and i do have the anti-bodies then they'll contacts me and i can become a donor which would be really nice to feel like you can help people you know because right now there's so much going. it's really difficult to. understand how to go. without contacting you being in contact with other people but this could be a really great way to do it so fingers crossed and it's not me for thing is they're

testing everybody who's here that you will today and maybe one of them will become i don't or and be able to help people who are really really suffering right now. so far we can say with absolute confidence that antibodies create a long lasting astronomy system but what we can say is the doctors and specialists hope that antibodies provide the immune system with enough strength to prevent getting infected the 2nd time the testament of bodies is important because there is a number of professionals such as doctors journalists or police officers who have to work with patients and those potentially in factories and then to bodies can be found in the blood of victims both with or without symptoms. friday marked labor day in many parts of the world over in france the covert 19 locked demonstrations were restricted to balconies or online is here some did help out in solo projects though they stepped in quickly correspondent sean looks back at them

made me more familiar with in paris if it weren't for locked up may the 1st is seen as being the traditional day of rally by union fronts now normally here tens of thousands of people would be gathering ready to march for workers' rights. in recent years the big protests have been hijacked and they have descended into chaos now i was here back in 2018 on the may day when i saw what has been some of the worst violence i have ever seen in france and it started on the streets basically when people began to build. holmes at this fast food restaurant and then going inside to complete the project.

claiming to be the work of the so-called a black blocks these are all the far left and the case that much of destruction continue down this street smashing windows until they got here where they burned vehicles outside the shop that released a huge plume of smoke into the air that burnt it felt like for at least an hour releasing potentially dangerous toxins into the air and putting the people who live in this building out race. not. as covert 19 has been an end to a wave of protests in france when at least out on the streets instead unions have

called for people to take to have balconies and to all in the spirit but with the friendship pent up inside and having no way to really vent their anger frustration against the government perhaps hullo bull economy or even the environment there is real concern that when the confinement starts to ease up on may the 11th radical groups will have something up their sleeves groups on social media have been calling for people to get ready for a new spate of action our own goal will not be confined was the slogan that i saw on one poster now these calls on social media already being tracked by the intelligence services who fear that violence will be used to seize it. attention very active rights and ultra-left networks have to prepare a number of police also see the calls on social media as being an opportunity to

display their hostility towards the police one militant site describes offices as being a greater threat than the virus itself and during the lockdown there has already been issues with the police and we need to tallaght particularly towards ethnic groups in the parisians suburbs that led to nights of violence. while the look turn for the most part has been peaceful be observed there is a real fear that france has become a bit of a pressure cooker and not anger towards the government hasn't gone away instead it's building up it's boiling away when people are released paris and in other

cities they could have open revolt on their hands. see paris. break out in germany with some defying of public gatherings against social distancing rules which were promoted by back in march 5000 police officers were deployed in the capital and several arrests were made in chile the situation was also tense are several dozen protesters were detained for violating looked on rules according to reports one of those upper hand it had tested positive for covert 19 and was meant to be quarantined for another 10 days police resorted to water cannon to disperse protest. i was the fight against corona virus takes center stage in the u.k. experts are warning of a rise in cancer related deaths more details on that after the break.

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welcome back to the program all. battling the coronavirus in england could claim thousands of additional lives lost the treatment that's according to new research by university college london and the health data research are starting from shoes they will restore vital services including cancer care which has mostly been put on hold during the pandemic. reports. britain could soon face another health care crisis not corona virus but a consequence of it scientists predict 18000 more people in the u.k. could die of cancer in the next year deaths from new cases in england could rise by

a 5th or one expert has a grim prognosis about the overall number of deaths caused by the disruption of cancer services during the pandemic this is likely to outweigh the number of deaths from the corona virus itself over the next 5 years cancer treatment in hospitals has been put on hold to make room for covert 19 patients last month attendance for chemotherapy dropped by as much as 60 percent and cancer referrals by doctors are 76 percent lower but it's not just treatments that have been affected and n.h.s. england survey found 10 percent of the public wouldn't seek help at all during the pandemic if they suspected they had cancer as experts fear people aren't coming forward cancer treatment hasn't stopped but we have seen a big reduction in the number of people coming forward and we'd like to reverse that because the system is open for business experts also warn other in direct death such as heart attacks could mean

a total exceeding those of the virus itself while the national health service also faces a backlog of procedures that could cost $3000000000.00 pounds to work through after cancelling 2000000 operations i think that it will take as many years to get back to a good position we need more operating theatre facilities we need more birds we have to keep the independent sector go when we may need to rely on keeping some of the nightingale hospitals open so far over 26000 people in the u.k. have died from coronavirus they want to stay health secretary matt hancock revealed urgent n.h.s. treatment for cancer and other real nurses will soon be working as usual because hospital admittance from coburg 19 pete the exact pace of the restoration will be determined by local circumstances on the ground. according to local need and according to the amount of the coronavirus cases that host that hospital is having to do with ministers are now considering moving many coronavirus patients to britain's near mt nightingale wards to make the u.k.'s permanent hospitals free

while the message for people who suspects they have cancer is still the same go and see your doctor we have got the facilities to treat people ganser can be a much bigger danger than to run a virus and we'd much rather see people with cancer is at an early stage the effect of coronavirus in the u.k. cannot just be measured on a daily death tolls there's also the a measurable cost in terms of where we've met and social and economic hardship but with the peak of the pandemic only just here the long term effects on the u.k.'s health could yet be worse kate partridge r.t. loved it. a lot he spoke to carole sykora oncologist on the dean of medicine at the university of buckingham in the u.k. you stressed the importance of starting to prioritize those in need of urgent treatment 1st of all people stay away because that's right and stay home protect the n.h.s. save lives that's been the slogan for the last month that chris 5 to go to the g.p.

that would get them into the diagnostic pathway operate 2 thirds as have been idle for the last month everything's been on respond to control there until a bittersweet scan intensive care and so on so we've got a whole cohort of cancer patients from april that haven't been diagnosed yet they're going to be diagnosed hopefully in may we're moving round to that now and then they'll come on the last 2 or 3 months worth of patients all need surgery related therapy chemotherapy so prioritizing them getting them through the system is really the key. the mayor of las vegas has offered to make residents in the city guinea pigs an experiment to open up despite the pandemic. 3000000 people in southern nevada and we've had 150 deaths we have to open now we are going to be a control group which the city's economy is expected to be the worst hit in the

u.s. as almost 40 percent of residents work in non-essential businesses which have been closed the state of nevada as a whole is also the most affected by the virus but a more of those unemployed without insurance has reached an all time high we asked people in las vegas whether they approve of the mayor's offer to gamble there safely. i am nobody's getting the play of this yes but sex a good plan is open up and let us the people decide where the numbers want to go back to work not so you know i keep my family safe and i think we all do the same thing we can all make some decisions for ourselves i just happen to be health care workers now i don't want to risk my life to be a guinea pig i'm already risking my life. helping people in that here that are already here that are testing positive i think it's like out of every. i'm like. that's how this is. and i think it's pretty much if you go. back to normal it's not going to be normal but some kind of play and we're never going to make. a

move artemisia been working for 2 years and it's like the next you want to hand. over is going to a small city out in the fall and learn what happened time and what's happening here it's like wildfire here in this at least one of us because now you. are with the world health organization warning that the worst of coronavirus may yet still be to come for africa some countries on the continent to take a novel approach the stopping the spread of our guys they have reports. on the surface africa appears to have escaped the worst of it but that's on the surface and already health care systems and economies are crumbling it's a town well we're dealing with govan night eat and we're also on the break of a hunger pandemic for the crawling virus even became an issue i was saying that

2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since world war 2 we're competing with the developed world the very future of the continent will depend on how this matter is handled it is getting competitive rich nations are buying up mosques and gloves and then delete. is this quickly as they're produced leaving poorer nations with nothing international aid be it food or medicine or money is slowing to a trickle even the w.h. who is warning that things could get very ugly qubit in africa could kill $300000.00 and forced millions into starvation it all depends on what we are discussing here which is are you testing or are you finding the cases are you isolating and tracking the contacts the w.h.o. report is not a prediction that means it must happen how is africa supposed to deal with a pandemic that is bored america to its knees especially without being able to

print dollars in euros without foreign aid without advanced healthcare systems and millions of africans western advice to self isolate and work from home is something out of a fantasy in and i don't have a source of income my normal work is to try and do people's laundry but it's been impossible to find work these days because of the fear of this disease brave conduct as men and women they are locking in markets market while cars so these people us 400 but they walk on the mouth every crime will go up in slums because now. these people the country. we live in now in a low income area i don't have quite high at home so that has impacted mine i think it is because now we have to catch up in academics missing out on a lot of speeches in terms of cost but because they have been dismissed at an early

period of time millions have no access to the internet to read warnings and explanations what they have a rich imaginations b. it's graffiti informing people look the virus isn't a conspiracy placed in slums where poverty and misinformation a rife be it me. using the legendary south african song pattern pat has been rewritten and re recorded with antiviral lyrics and is being aired by more than a dozen african review stations. it's no surprise that on a continent where funerals can involve song and dance that music is on the front lines in the fight against couvade 19 africa is being left to fend for itself charity has become a luxury no one expects a miraculous international rescue so the continent does what it can at least it

fights the virus on its own terms. can be a real strain on the body and mind as well but for those in need of daily assistance it's been devastating for essential routines some people are stepping up though in their life time of me take a rena who's volunteered to be with mina from a residential care home. spoke to them about their locked out of spirits together. you mean the how is your life you're going to be and i'm just happy. you don't you want to go back to hospital. you know definitely not as i didn't like you and will try during the day i was told anything now during the friendships my shots if i want to watch a movie i do like it was a day when nino just moved in she said that at the beginning of the year she had one dream to meet football players. that appears before the current team i said i

want to meet russian soberly and the dream came true. and then inquire into my she said she had another dream to move away from the residential care somewhere and the 2nd dream came true and. that. the reader have not left the apartment for weeks i've been spending their time cooking dancing and celebrating a birthday together reno told us earlier why she decided to isolate with me no rather good deed is becoming a growing trend in russia. now sequential. quarantine and residential care didn't look so secure people can't leave because all it is can't come in are but the permanent workers are still there salaries are not so big so most use public transport but in residential care such a close place if someone's in factor that will be a tragedy as long as i've known enough she's always been a very optimistic person told my question is she has always answered that everything's great but after residential care was close for quarantine i started to

receive other messages that she's bored she feels bad not comfortable so i thought to ask nina to leave with me taking into account all our messages i knew that we would find a way to live together comfortably in quarantine but of course taking people from residential care to quarantine is not a solution for everyone and yes as far as i know just around 400 people since the beginning of the pandemic have been taken from such residential care homeless not a lot. what are they don't try to trick continues with the invisible clawson if he were to time the team but i about her next hour with a run up of the week's top stories. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military air.